REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, YAOUNDE -- Central African Republic's gendarmes and police officers on Thursday morning resumed their patrols in Bangui, following a meeting held on Wednesday evening with the French army in the presence of the country's interim President Michel Djotodia.

The patrols was suspended on Tuesday due to rising tension following the unfortunate incidents that were caused by the French army's forceful disarmament operation of the ex-Seleka rebels who are currently in power.

The French soldiers have been deployed to reinforce the International Support Mission in Central African Republic (MISCA), a PanAfrican force meant to pacify the country that has witnessed violent incidents since Djotodia took power on March 24, 2013.

"There is some change this morning, people have started moving: mobile taxis, pedestrians and civilian vehicles. We have also removed our vehicles, they are on the streets," the head of Central African Republic's national gendarmerie, Michel Narkoyo, told Xinhua during a telephone interview on Thursday morning.

The meeting on Wednesday came after disarmament on Monday, which ended with the death of two French soldiers during an exchange of fire.

The meeting which was held after Tuesday's brief visit to Bangui by French President Francois Hollande, resolved to allow the Central African Republic's police and gendarmes to resume their daily patrols.

"Without the gendarmerie and the police, the French troops will do nothing. Their big armored vehicles cannot enter the interior zones to carry out operations," Narkoyo said.

The disarmament operations have also resumed. The operations are targeting ex-Seleka rebels and other armed groups in the country.

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